Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Know wha do you know what about I remember about that holiday ? |
| 2 | It 'll be about I think about half past one . |
| 3 | Ideally , we should like the government to ensure that the economy is on the Pareto-efficient frontier , shown in Figure 15–2 , but take responsibility for making the value judgement about which point on this frontier the economy should attain . |
| 4 | A broad interpretation of what it means would greatly expand the number of crimes for which access to legal advice could be delayed . |
| 5 | With a number of recent recordings of these works by various players , most of whom claim in one way or another the composer 's approval of their performance , it is certainly worth hearing how Messiaen himself approached his organ music . |
| 6 | The event , sponsored by the Cooperative Bank and organised by the town 's recreation department , attracts entries from all over the country , many of whom run in fancy dress for their favourite charities . |
| 7 | The AAPA 's membership covers 1,100 individuals who are authorised as auditors by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under the Companies Act 1967 , most of whom work as sole practitioners . |
| 8 | Many women are in employment but women also make up 60 per cent of Britain 's six million carers , many of whom look after elderly relatives . |
| 9 | Most of them reappear with little change in the ‘ Ainulindalé ’ or ‘ Valaquenta ’ . |
| 10 | This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years , and all three of them use in various forms the version prepared by Shostakovich on the basis of Pavel Lamm 's edition . |
| 11 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 12 | None of them go beyond nineteen ninety six ? |
| 13 | Most of them come with explanatory booklets detailing the words and commands the computer understands , and include a description of each cave or room that Samson might enter . |
| 14 | The number of people with AIDS varies enormously between countries , but most of them come from large towns rather than rural areas . |
| 15 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 16 | I do n't know why some of them get like that , well of course they should n't be doctors any how . |
| 17 | Most of them stick to one corner . |
| 18 | ‘ Some of them return with minimum or no mutation at all , ’ Gilbert mumbled from his seat . |
| 19 | Most of them fall into one ( or sometimes more ) of three categories in this respect : the disposition is seen as being inherited , acquired or invented . |
| 20 | Studies of such drugs in food-intolerant patients have shown that a large proportion of them suffer from these minor enzyme deficiencies ( see p 233 ) . |
| 21 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 22 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 23 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 24 | What 's more , almost none of them work by binary notation — the normal method for computers — because that 's just yes/no stuff . |
| 25 | In fact , the only things that either of them possess in any real quantity are ambition and hair , huge headfuls of both . |
| 26 | Most of them belong to one of a small number of families of related molecules in which the individual members share the same basic molecular structure but are subtly different from each other ( figure ) . |
| 27 | The term ‘ house churches ’ is applied to a variety of congregations , Some of them belong to organised groupings , but all are characterised by a common emphasis on the dynamic activity of the Holy Spirit in the lives of their members . |
| 28 | Living alone , although a very real care problem for many dementia sufferers because of the need some of them have for continual safeguarding , might not in itself be a problem for all if they had sons or ( more realistically ) daughters living nearby who could help with their care . |
| 29 | Ask yourself what these three poets in your experience of them have in common , and in answering that you will get near to the quality I am trying to isolate . ’ |
| 30 | So it would take me twenty hours of I drive at six miles an hour . |